Spiritbro77, I've read that comment "Do you expect us to believe that the staff will objectivly pick AOY? Not likely" or similar in a couple of other threads, and I have to say that I for one find it to be rather offensive. Probably about as offensive as you obviously find the current situation. The impression you give is that you think we're all just looking at the balance sheet or thinking about who pissed us off this year. You are very wrong if you think that's how it is. What has happened is unfortunate, I agree, but Tammy has had the balls to step up and admit she made a mistake. But that counts for very little doesn't it? After all, if the apology were to be accepted there would be one less thing left to fight over wouldn't there? As to your "worthiness to vote" issue, let's be brutally frank shall we? Of all the members here, the VAST majority are honest and wouldn't dream of trying to rig a vote. But there is a small minority of members here who take every opportunity to try to derail things and spend a lot of time bitching about this or that aspect of how the site is run. It is ultimately they, not the site administration, who caused the change of policy. For what it's worth, I'd like AOY to be a popular vote, but since it was fiddled with last year it was changed. Rather than trying to turn this into a members v. staff issue why not throw the crap in the direction of the minority who caused this change in the first place? Kevin.